Here’s the deal. You can essentially request a pig that will taste like whiskey because of a process whereby they eat the dry distillery grain during the raising process. It’s all overseen by Nick Berry from Iowa State University and only features 25 pigs. Via… Continue Reading
Everything needs an origin story — Mother’s Day as well — and its origins take it back to Grafton, West Virginia in the early 1900s. To wit: In its present form, Mother’s Day was established by Anna Jarvis with the… Continue Reading
It’s upfronts time in TV, so networks are announcing shows that got the ax (no more seasons) and some of their new shows for the fall. Over at ABC, Modern Family gets all the ink (its last couple of episodes have been… Continue Reading
Lot of news recently about Alibaba, since it’s going public in the United States. A common refrain is: what is it? There are many ways to answer that — do your own Google search — but this one might be the… Continue Reading
Is the conventional funnel you always hear about actually now dead? Continue Reading
Above is the end of Game 4 of the 1995 NBA Finals. The Rockets swept the Magic (with a young Shaq) and won their second consecutive NBA championship. That was the last championship the city won, which is about 18-19 years. That’s… Continue Reading
By some measure, there are 500 million tweets sent everyday, world-wide. For the purposes of an exercise, consider this: if you were to say that each tweet represented one inch of space (because why not), the 500 million inches therein would… Continue Reading
I had this MBA Strategy class last fall. It was supposed to meet 12-14 times; the professor was sick three times and one time, I’m pretty sure he didn’t show up. So we met about 10 times, and I swear… Continue Reading